A Proposed Ban on ‘Bump Stocks’ and State Reciprocity for Gun Permits

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🗓️ 8 December 2017

⏱️ 16 minutes

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A ban on so-called "bump stocks" earned a surprise endorsement from some Republicans. As Congress considers a bump stock ban and the creation of state reciprocity of gun permits, Dave Kopel offers his thoughts.

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0:47.1	Congress is now pondering legislation to ban so-called bump stocks, but what else does
0:51.8	it ban? And what would be the likely impacts of a federal
0:54.9	reciprocity statute that would allow your gun permit to function in other states.
0:59.8	The House just passed legislation providing for that reciprocity, the Cato Institute's Dave
1:04.7	Kopold comments.
1:06.0	Shortly after the shooting in Las Vegas that killed dozens of people, there was this new term that sort of permeated popular consciousness, which was bump stocks.
1:20.0	And this is a device that you attach to certain firearms that allows them to very, very quickly,
1:29.4	make use of that recoil to fire the next round.
1:34.8	And Congress is sort of puzzling over exactly
1:38.8	how to deal with this and whether or not
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